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Nursultan Nazarbayev has been quoted 12 times. The two most recent articles where Nursultan Nazarbayev has been quoted are Kazakhstan: striving for nuclear disarmament and Kazakh leader’s party wins landslide in snap parliamentary vote. Most recently, Nursultan Nazarbayev was quoted as having said, “The challenge is that if a nuclear war started and everything was destroyed – it would be the apocalypse. I do not think anyone on earth would disagree with this, so we are optimistic. Optimistic because people want to live, raise their children and grandchildren and do not want a nuclear war.Therefore, such conferences and our initiatives are aimed at conveying the danger to every person on the planet.”.

Quotes by Nursultan Nazarbayev

Aug 30 2016

The challenge is that if a nuclear war started and everything was destroyed – it would be the apocalypse. I do not think anyone on earth would disagree with this, so we are optimistic. Optimistic because people want to live, raise their children and grandchildren and do not want a nuclear war.Therefore, such conferences and our initiatives are aimed at conveying the danger to every person on the planet.feedback

Even senior leaders of Kazakhstan were not allowed to know about the ongoing tests until 1990, until Gorbachev's glasnost and the opportunity to speak. And as a result of demands from the people, who already knew and understood the complexity and gravity of the issues, I took the only right decision – despite difficulties at the time. The military-industrial complex of the Soviet Union was against it and the Soviet leadership was also against it.feedback

Today, of course, the most serious regional problem is Afghanistan. There is also the nuclear situation in Iran. This debate continues. The world community has not received a definite response yet. The 'frozen conflicts' also fall within the scope of OSCE liability: the Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria, Georgia-Abkhazia and Georgia-South Ossetia conflicts. The Balkan issues remain, as well. And the main challenge, of course, is that of terrorism, extremism and drug trafficking.feedback

I think that all OSCE States are concerned that after eight years of actions we are unable to achieve a calm and peaceful life for the Afghan people. It will be a major concern for the OSCE. Kazakhstan is involved as a partner in this process and as the OSCE chairman.feedback

Well, that's emphasized in the founding documents of the OSCE. Naturally, we will adhere to this. But, like I said, all the areas should be balanced. There shouldn't be distortions, as have occurred in the past, when one issue gets priority over another.feedback

When companies were closing everywhere, we set up 170 new businesses. That allowed us to create 400,000 new jobs. The unemployment rate in Kazakhstan has not gone up, but rather it has fallen from 7.5 percent down to six percent, and it's all been done using our own reserves.feedback

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